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Virginia's only proton therapy center completed treatment on just 52 cancer patients from mid-September 2014 to mid-June 2015, according to its own numbers.

Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute in Hampton, an independent, free-standing facility billed as the largest of its kind in the world, treated its first patient for prostate cancer in September 2010. Since then, HUPTI has averaged about 250 patients a year, little more than one-tenth of initial projections.

"I still have high hopes for it. The baby isn't born full-grown. It's just like any other new business. I'm not discouraged at all," said Hampton University President William Harvey, who projected...

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